Today's KNOWLEDGE Share:Co2 Emission from the gas tank of the car.

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Today's KNOWLEDGE Share

656 tonnes of oil sands to be extracted to fill the tank of a single car during its life on the road.


This is a gas tank. Over the lifetime of a single gas powered car consuming 8 L/100 km, approximately 656 tonnes of oil sands will have to be extracted to fill this tank. According to Alberta government documents, it takes an average of 2 tonnes of oil sands extracted to produce a single barrel of synthetic crude oil (159 liters).* Some say more like 2.5 tonnes per barrel, but let's go with the official figures.


In 300,000 km, the car will need 24,000 liters of petrol. With one barrel of crude oil, we make about 73 liters of gasoline.


24,000 Litres / 73 Litres = 328 barrels X 2 tonnes per barrel = 656 tonnes of oil sands to extract for a single car.


24,000 Litres X 2.3 kg of CO2 per liter of gas burnt in the car = 55,200 kg of CO2. If we add 25% for gasoline production (upstream GHG emissions), we arrive at just under 70,000 kg of CO2 for a single car (70 tonnes), or 43 times the weight of a Toyota Camry.


In closing, let me remind you that exactly 0% of this burnt gasoline can be recycled.


Source:Daniel Breton

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